TE_READONLY in styledtextctrl not working

Question

I am working on a editor with styledtextctrl, the editor has to be read-only for the users, but with TE_READONLY defined, the editor still editable, the snippet is as following:

text_ctrl = stc.StyledTextCtrl(self, -1, wx.Point(0,0), wx.Size(150, 90), wx.DOUBLE_BORDER | wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_READONLY | wx.TE_RICH2 | wx.TE_DONTWRAP )

I tried SetReadOnly(True), with which python code cannot write to the editor either, I need to show the user text with different style, but the user cannot edit the text.

Any suggestion is appreciated！

Answer 1

The method SetReadOnly has a capital O.

text_ctrl.SetReadOnly(True)

Answer 2

You can toggle editable mode before and after writing to it as in:

text.SetEditable(True)
text.AddText("some text")
text.SetEditable(False)